FUNDING
Alzheimer’s Association
As the largest nonprofit funder of Alzheimer’s research, the Alzheimer’s Association is committed to accelerating the global progress of new treatments, preventions and, ultimately, a cure.
IONIS
Ionis is building an extraordinary team and culture that is driven to deliver transformational medicines that pioneer new markets or fundamentally change the standard of care. We are guided by world-class scientists, and business leaders whose great passion for innovation is equaled only by their focus and commitment to discover, develop and deliver medicines to the patients who depend on us.
The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind
The Ziegler Foundation strives to provide research grants to outstanding investigators at the early stages of their careers who show innovation and promise in vision research
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NIH is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency—making important discoveries that improve health and save lives. NIH is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world, creating hundreds of thousands of high-quality jobs by funding thousands of scientists in universities and research institutions in every state across America and around the globe.
Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative
The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, and his wife Pricilla Chan to provide new solutions to human disease. A major goal of the initiative is to bring new people with innovative ideas that solve intractable problems, in this case neurodegeneration.
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
NSF’s task of identifying and funding work at the frontiers of science and engineering is not a “top-down” process. NSF operates from the “bottom up,” keeping close track of research around the United States and the world, maintaining constant contact with the research community to identify ever-moving horizons of inquiry, monitoring which areas are most likely to result in spectacular progress and choosing the most promising people to conduct the research.
Research to Prevent Blindness Foundation
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) provides major eye research funding to 37 leading scientific institutions in the U.S. and supports the work of hundreds of talented vision scientists engaged in a diverse range of disease-oriented research.